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This paper is concerned with the thermoelastic analysis of a functionally graded rotating annular disk subjected to a nonuniform steady-state thermal load. Material properties are assumed to be temperature independent and continuously varying in the radial direction of the annular disk. The variations of Young's modulus, material density, thermal expansion and conductivity coefficients are represented by a novel exponential-law distribution through the radial direction of the disk, but Poission's ratio is kept constant. The governing differential equations are exactly satisfied at every point of the disk. Exact solutions for the temperature and stress fields are derived in terms of an exponential integral and Whittaker's functions. Presented are some results for stress, strain and displacement components due to thermal bending of the rotating disk. The effects of angular velocity, inner and outer temperature loads and material properties on the stress, strain and displacement components are discussed.

This work presents a quadratic boundary integral equation formulation for isotropic damage analysis of components subjected to mechanical, thermal and centrifugal loads. To evaluate domain-related integrals due to the damage effects, the radial integration method (RIM) based on the use of the approximating the normalized displacements in the domain integrals by a series of prescribed radial basis functions (RBF) is adopted. The density of micro-defects is assumed to be small in the material. The scalar damage parameter expressed in an exponential evolution equation is utilized. Numerical examples including a rectangular plate, thick-walled cylinder and rotating disk problems under the thermal loads are given.